Oil & Gas
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Oil prices climbs to $43.41 as OPEC+ extends output cuts
Oil prices rose more than 2% early on Monday to their highest in three months after OPEC and its allies including...
COVID-19: NNPC unveils contact tracing App
In a strategic move to curb the spread of COVID-19 pandemic in its organization and government offices, the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation...
For the first time in three months, Brent oil rises to $40
For the first time since March, oil price rose on Wednesday with Brent going up at $40 just as optimism mounted...
FG set to auction 57 oil fields in June
 As indicated few months ago, the Federal Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), has announced that 57 oil fields will be...
Sexual promiscuity and rape: Exxon Mobil engineer bags 15 years in jail
For his unrestrained sexual promiscuity and raping his tenant’s teenage girl, an EX- Exxon Mobil engineer, James Onuoha, is to spend 15 years...
FG reduces petrol pump price to N121.50
The Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency has announced a new pump price band of N121.50 per litre for Premium Motor Spirit, also...
Four years after, Pres. Buhari reconstitutes NNPC six-member board
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has got a new board following the expiration of the tenure of board members appointed...
Revealed: Ex-NNPC GMD, Baru, died of COVID-19
The late Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr Maikanti Kachalla Baru, may have died of COVID-19, Persecondnews has...
Alleged Marginalization: 21 Southerners Hold Top Management Positions As COOs, MDs, GMs, Others In NNPC
Says top management appointments based on merit Contrary to allegations of lopsidedness in management appointments at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation...
CBN, NNPC to foot over N1bn cost of feeding, accommodation of evacuees – Minister
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), have both agreed to fund, as part of their Corporate...
COVID-19: FCT Minister lauds NNPC-led oil and gas industry coalition’s initiatives
Donates land for state-of-the-art health facility Commends NNPC GMD Impressed with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)-led support for the...
Nigeria’s downstream petroleum sector deregulated effective March 2020 – Minister
Intervention in petrol pricing to check marketers’ exploitation With an air of finality, the Federal Government said on Thursday that...
NNPC records ₦211.6bn petroleum products sales in February
… an 111 per cent Increase in Trading Surplus …sold ₦2.6tn products with petrol accounting for 98.06 per cent The Nigerian National Petroleum...
FG to auction some marginal oil fields, says NNPC’s Kyari
In spite of the crash in crude oil prices, the Federal Government says it will auction marginal oil fields later this...
Fire at Lagos NNPC retail affiliate station from underground tank, not tanker, says NNPC
… affirms all its station observes required safety standards The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation’s subsidy, NNPC Retail Limited, says the fire at one...
US oil drops steeply below $15 per barrel
US oil prices on Monday plummeted, hitting below $15 a barrel on renewed storage concerns as the coronavirus throttles demand even as...
